Word: affectedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moralizes too much, stating explicitly what his story conveys, or should convey, by itself. Written as a movie scenario, Ape and Essence is burdened with a "narrator" who points the lesson line by line. Yet the book has a certain awesome impressiveness; its sheer, intractable bitterness cannot but affect the reader as Huxley chants his litanies over modern civilization...
...issues of the campaign: housing and high prices. His message asked for passage of the Taft-Ellender-Wagner bill and most of the ten-point anti-inflation program he had put before Congress last fall, including standby authority to ration and control the prices of scarce commodities "which vitally affect . . . health and welfare...
...folklore stories of people getting rid of eyelid styes by rubbing them with wedding rings. He checked 158 patients, found that 92% of those with styes and 80% of those with tarsal cysts (tumors of the eyelid) had "an exceptional interest in birth." Just why such concern should affect eyelids, .Dr. Inman is not sure. But he reasons that "serious chronic inflammations in the body generally might be beneficially influenced by systematic psychoanalysis...
Radioisotopes have already revolutionized many kinds of research, particularly biology, and are beginning to affect industry. They are chiefly used as "tracers" to mark with exquisite sensitivity the motions or chemical transformations of a substance by "tagging" it with radioactivity. Direct uses are increasing, such as modifying chemical reactions by the radiation from isotopes...
...Charles II) to new activity against the House of Windsor, or bring Anne of Cleves's Dutch connections flocking to London to claim a place at court, the Lords were careful to add a rider. "This act," they informed anyone nursing an old grudge or claim, "shall not affect the validity, invalidity, effect or consequences of anything done or suffered, or any existing status or capacity, or any right, title, obligation or liability...